Note: This is not an actual Summons or Journey message as such. But at the end of Ruben sharing this I (Judy) asked him if it was a message to be shared and if so, when. He stated it is a “partial” message, and to go ahead and send it out. Fortunately I had turned on the recorder. It all began with a comment I made to him about a rooster crowing in the morning. That led to his question to me, “why does a rooster crow?” I answered, to wake you up. He asked, “what else?” You need a hen and a rooster to have chicks. “What else?” I said that Jesus told Peter, “before the cock crows, you will deny Me three times.” And that began this message—and it will be helpful if you go back and read the five Messages from Jesus (Yeshua) in 2018.
Ruben: Peter had said to Jesus, I won’t deny you, I would never deny you—but he did. Do we always mean what we say? Time will tell. The time is even near when we have to understand and realize; do we just say things because it’s words? Or do we say it because we mean it? Or is it tradition? Which one is it? Yeshua will still be waiting for that answer from us....”Do you love me?”
Can’t You see that we respond to You Yeshua? Can’t You see that I’m reading Your Word, that I’m praying for people? Can’t You see that I’m doing what I’ve got to do? Yeshua says, “But that’s not enough.” We say, why? Can’t You see this? But Yeshua comes back and says, “Could you do what I did for you?” That’s the thoughts of Yeshua.
Are we really sold out for His Kingdom? Are we really hearing? Or are we really just wrapped up in our traditions, our habits. Are we just comfortable where we’re at? We don’t want to expand. This is comfortable, this is my rocking chair, this is my recliner. I’ve got my remote in my recliner. I can drink my water, my tea, my coffee. But are we really sold out?
Yeshua is reminding us; “Do you really love Me? Do you love Me? DO YOU LOVE ME?” You see, Yeshua knows the answer. He knows what’s going to happen when the time comes—when the time comes—when the time comes. He says, “Will you deny Me to save your life? Will you deny Me so you can live? Will you deny Me so you can eat? Will you deny Me so you can have a roof over your head? Or will you deny Me for the things of the world? Time will tell and time will tell, and time will tell!
Anybody can read the Bible. Anybody can study. Anybody can watch TV programs, kick back. But, “Do you really love Me? Time will tell,” says Yeshua. Yeshua says, “Ask yourself, could you do what I’ve done for you? Or are you going to save your life? There’s a big question mark,” says Yeshua, “on everybody. Because the gate is narrow,” says Yeshua. “Time will tell. Time will tell,” says Yeshua.
At this point Ruben asked me: So, what do you think about that?” I was silent. I couldn’t answer. He said, It’s wise to just be silent. Ponder it.
Then he seemed to switch gears. He said, See, I’m never alone. Everywhere I go; if I’m working by myself, walking by myself, driving by myself; I’m never alone. I’d rather be like this the rest of my life. When I’m working, walking, driving, traveling; you could not ask a better life than to be in the atmosphere of hearing the Voice, and the only Voice that comes from Heaven. Because I’ve been told over and over, ‘You’re not alone.’ In the human side you feel like it, but in the spiritual, you never are. If only people could acknowledge and accept, and realize and be thankful that the Father has sent angels for us. But because we have the mind and the attitude and the lack of faith like Thomas; we have to see it, ‘I have to see my angel.’ Knowing that the angel is walking with you, knowing that the angel’s there protecting you; but yet we’re stubborn as mules. As human beings, we have to see it, ‘I have to see my angel.’
So what is this saying? What is this saying? The gates are narrow. Even now, even now. This is a reminder, a reminder, and I’m going back to Michael. And Michael says, and reminds us, “Does my Lord have to be crucified again? Have you not heard? Have you not seen? Have you not understood? The Father says, ‘do I have to send My Son to be crucified for you again?’ And they’re saying, ‘Why, why do people not understand? Why do people not grasp? Why do people assume, and assume, and assume? Why do people have to see what I do? Can they not accept and believe? So be it. So it is written. So be it.’
“So I will show you wonders, signs, miracles. Supernatural things that you cannot imagine. And even then you will doubt. And even then you will miss it. And even then you’ll question! Even then! Because you’re so wrapped up in religion, poisoned with religion! She said. He said. He said. She said. Even now. Michael says, “What is this? What is this? WHAT IS THIS?! Is this supposed to be a show? A circus? A play? WHAT IS THIS?! For my Master was not an actor! It was real! Like you. Like you! And He bled like you! He cried like you! He suffered like you! He was in pain like you! He yelled like you! Yes! My Master yelled! Every time there was a slash in His back He yelled, and it echoed! It echoed to the world! It echoed through the earth! It echoed into the heavens! And all the angels looked, prepared to come down to this world and pick Him up and destroy those who punished Him!
“Is that what the people want again? For our Master to scream and cry and yell and bleed, and be mocked?! But we know better in Heaven. Even then, they still won’t believe. Because of religion. Religion, and religion! This church is better than that church. That church is better than the other church. And the rumors and the gossip in the church! It’s so corrupted! This brother, that sister. This sister, that brother. That pastor. That pastor’s wife. That deacon. “Behold!” Says the voice of Yeshua. “Behold! Time will tell! Time will tell!”
Yeshua says, “I will use the same words that Moses did in those days on the mountain. ‘Those who want to serve My Lord, come across. Those who don’t, let them be condemned.’ There will be a crying out like never before in the world among the people who call themselves religious. Christians, praying Christians, crying out for forgiveness, for mercy! Time will tell! Time will tell!”
Ruben: So, that would be the title; Time Will Tell. There are Scriptures in this, somewhere in Matthew, that have to do with the rooster, with denial. Wow! Glory to God! Scriptures in Revelation that have to do with religion and with lukewarm—but it has to do with, “Do You Love Me?”
“Peter declared to Him, Though they all are offended and stumble and fall away because of You [and distrust and desert You], I will never do so. Jesus said to him, Solemnly I declare to you, this very night, before a single rooster crows, you will deny and disown Me three times. Peter said to Him, Even if I must die with You, I will not deny or disown You! And all the disciples said the same thing.
Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard, and one maid came up to him and said, You were also with Jesus the Galilean! But he denied it falsely before them all, saying, I do not know what you mean. And when he had gone out to the porch, another maid saw him, and she said to the bystanders, This fellow was with Jesus the Nazarene! And again he denied it and disowned Him with an oath, saying, I do not know the Man! After a little while, the bystanders came up and said to Peter, You certainly are one of them too, for even your accent betrays you. Then Peter began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, I do not even know the Man! And at that moment a rooster crowed. And Peter remembered Jesus' words, when He had said, Before a single rooster crows, you will deny and disown Me three times. And he went outside and wept bitterly.” Matthew 26:33-35, 69-75 AMPC.
“I know your [record of] works and what you are doing; you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of My mouth!” Revelation 3:15-16 AMPC.
For The Journey and Ruben,
Judy